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Sep 20 2009
Chupacabras reappears in Tulancingo, Mexico
In the community of Lagunilla, belonging to Tulancingo, an unusual case took place yesterday that has made neighbors feel concerned and afraid. Some said: "The Chupacabras has returned." Seven sheep were found this morning with brutal injuries. One of them displayed a hole in its side, which caused its death. The rest showed signs of injury, but lived to see another day...
(Also read: "The Blood-Sucking Creature from Hell")

Painter prodigy says God showed her anything is possible
She's just 12, but prodigy Akiane Kramarik (AH-key-ah-nuh KRAM-uh-rik) is already winning laurels for her work as a little painter and poet. Akiane, who lives in Post Falls with her family, says her realistic images are inspired by spiritual dreams and prayer. She says God appeared to her when she was just four...

Human thoughts control new robot
Scientists have created a way to control a robot with signals from a human brain. By generating the proper brainwaves—picked up by a cap with electrodes that sense the signals and reflect a person's instructions—scientists can instruct a humanoid robot to move to specific locations and pick up certain objects...

Psychic animals
In the early 1950s, Dr. Joseph Banks Rhine, based at Duke University, was the foremost researcher in the field of parapsychology, or, using the term he coined: "extrasensory perception." The Army hired Rhine and his Parapsychology Laboratory to research the possibility of using dogs and other animals to detect buried landmines. The final report for one such contract with Duke University, dated 10 July 1953, remained classified as Confidential for more than 50 years, until it was recently declassified after a long, laborious process...
(Also read: "Are Pets Psychic or Just Super-Sensitive?")

Head-butt by horse restores man's sight
A second World War veteran who was blinded in his right eye when he was hit by shrapnel can see again after being head-butted by a pedigree racehorse. Doctors tried in vain for 64 years to restore Don Karkos's sight, until My Buddy Chimo stepped in...

The mysterious Maco Light
Maco Light, also called the Ghost at Maco Station, is one of North Carolina's most well-known and enduring supernatural phenomena. It dates to a fatal train wreck in 1867 at a small rural station then called Farmer's Turnout, 14 miles west of Wilmington on the line serving Wilmington, Florence, S.C., and Augusta, Ga. Conductor Joe Baldwin, riding in the last car of a wood-burning train, discovered that his car had come uncoupled. He died waving a lantern from the rear of that car in a failed attempt to signal and stop a second train coming from behind...

Thousands of ducks mysteriously dying in Idaho
Officials scrambled on Wednesday to determine what has caused the deaths of thousands of mallard ducks in south-central Idaho near the Utah border. Although wildlife experts are downplaying any links to bird flu, they have sent samples to government labs to test for the deadly H5N1 flu strain, among other pathogens...

The year ahead in ufology and beyond

I.E. sees saucer sightings
Think the Inland Empire is the last place a flying saucer would visit? Then consider the July 6, 1947, experience of the R.V. Allen family of Riverside Drive in Ontario: "The rancher said that while he and Mrs. Allen and their daughter Dolores were seated in their motor car about 9:30 p.m., they saw a whole `school' of the strange discs overhead from south to north and insisted that they `played about in the air just as perch do in the water,"' wrote the Ontario Daily Report the next day...

The ghost that lived in a computer
Although it may not be right, I put it down to some component of the computer malfunctioning as the ghost entered and left the machine. About eight years ago, I lived in a large bungalow in the plantation I was working in. It had several rooms, all with attached bathrooms, and had a large hall and dining area. The house was also equipped with all the latest electronic gadgets. I lived alone in this bungalow as my family had moved to Australia by then. I only made use of the master bedroom, the hall, the study and the dining area...

Comet dust yields up some surprises

Borneo’s lost world: 52 new species
In some media accounts, it is being called another "lost world." In others, the "Heart of Borneo." Over 52 new species of plants and animals have been discovered there from July 2005 through September 2006...

Apparition of a bride killed over half a century ago at her own wedding registered on video-film in Novorossijsk
People in Novorossijsk maintain the ghost of the dead girl is wandering around the Seven Winds Pass at the entry to the city. Lingering mushroomers, drivers and retreat-seeking couples have often confided they saw a woman in white standing at the side of the road leading to the mountains. Recently a local woman has managed to photograph this ghost by her mobile, the Komsomolskaya Pravda daily writes on Monday...

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